Startup applications are now open!
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Showcase your business, gain visibility, and build new partnerships
At Food Tech Challengers, we are on a mission to pinpoint the most game-changing solutions that will transform the way we produce and consume food. If your company creates disruptive solutions, this is your chance to put your product or service in the spotlight.
Food Tech Challengers provides startups from all over the globe a unique opportunity to take center stage, gain global media exposure, and showcase their solutions to a distinctive panel of 100+ investors, industry leaders and experts.
To enter, startups must be innovators in one of the six tracks fostering the food tech innovation – New Proteins, Enhancing well-being via nutrition, Food transparency, safety & security, Fighting food waste battle, Digital from farm to fork, and Regenerative agriculture.
60 finalists. 1 Winner
TOP-60 companies (10 in each track) are shortlisted by a distinguished panel of industry experts from global corporations, venture capitals, ecosystem builders and media partners.
All finalists are invited to pitch live at Food Tech Congress 2024, the leading industry conference of the year. Taking place on May 29 – 30, 2024 in Warsaw, Poland, the event offers invaluable networking opportunities and media exposure.
One company is announced the Ultimate Winner of Food Tech Challengers 2024.
Timeline
1
Application
deadline
February 19, 2024
2
Top 60
announced
March 1, 2024
Timeline
1
Application
deadline
February 19, 2024
2
Top 60
announced
March 1, 2024
3
Top 60
pitches
May 29 – 30, 2024 @ Food Tech Congress
4
Top 6 pitches & Winner
announced
May 29 – 30, 2024 @ Food Tech Congress
Why join Food Tech Challengers?
Unparalleled
Networking
All finalists are granted a complimentary ticket to Food Tech Congress 2024, taking place in Warsaw, Poland on May 29 – 30, 2024. Over 800 industry visionaries will gather to share disruptive ideas and network with a group of peers. This is your perfect chance to network and hold 1:1 meetings with the key players in food and agri tech.
Remarkable
Jury Members
Present your ground-breaking solution in front of a remarkable jury comprising the representatives of top notch venture capitals and corporations. This annual competition is designed to empower entrepreneurs and help them build new partnerships that will lead to future industry breakthroughs.
Brand
Exposure
Do not miss out on the opportunity to share your brand’s story with a global audience of over 800 attendees. Food Tech Challengers also welcomes journalists from the world’s leading media companies to give your company unparalleled reach.
Startup applications are now open
Application to the FTC is entirely free and each finalist company (60 in total/10 per track) are granted 1 complimentary ticket to Food Tech Congress 2024. May the odds be in your favour!
Food Tech Challengers 2023 highlights
Winners of 2023
Ultimate
Challenger
Through cutting-edge sensor technology and innovative cloud solutions, PLAATO makes real-time fermentation insights available to breweries, cideries, and distilleries around the world; enabling them to take productivity, profitability, and product quality to the next level.
TOP 6 Challengers
MedBiome develops Precision Microbiome Therapeutics and Precision Microbiome Nutrition products that modulate the production of specific metabolites produced by the human gut microbiome.
Mill It is an innovative plant-based company that offers first organic vegan buttermilk, used to make organic plant-based salad dressings that are half the fat and calories of the leading brands.
Umami Meats is cultivating the future of sustainable seafood by crafting delicious, nutritious, affordable cultivated fish that is better for health, oceans, and our planet.
Through cutting-edge sensor technology and innovative cloud solutions, PLAATO makes real-time fermentation insights available to breweries, cideries, and distilleries around the world; enabling them to take productivity, profitability, and product quality to the next level.
NoPalm Ingredients produces local, circular and sustainable alternatives to palm oil. It is produced by oil-producing yeast that grow-on/ferment AgriFood sidestreams.
Meet the jury
Gil Horsky
Signe Causse
Shankar Shubhang
Nigel Hughes
Henrietta Hearth
Jelena Erker
Brett Brohl
Nikolaus Raupp
Alexander Wiegelmann
Marie Asano
Madhusudan Patel
Piotr Grabowski
Micol Chiesa
Paul Benjamin
Catherine Trillo-Blanco
Dr Sven Janssen
Kristen Rocca
Gonzalo Perez-Taiman
Florence Dusseaux
Giancarlo Addario
Dr Michael Betz
Jurgen Sonneborn
Florian Herkner
Ivaylo Simov
Jordi Ràfols Fernández
Kim Odhner
Dr. Roger Wyse
Julian Melchiorri
Mariliis Holm
Silla Scheepens
Kip Stringfellow
Jaroslav Trojan
Rim Elijah
Annina Winkler
Inbar Maymon-Pomeranchik
Beatriz Jacoste
Pia Laguna
Iris ten Have
Danny O’Brien
Kasia Gil
Matt Jensen
Peter Schmetz
Carole Bingley
Nemanja Grigic
John Carrigan
Alice Brown
Matthew Tebeau
Jowita Sewerska
Michał Piosik
Albrecht Wolfmeyer
Rebecca Brill
Bhakavadee Viseshakul
Christopher Aurand
Mark Daly
Kostas Valaris
Julian Klaiber
Nicolaus Norden
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